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No. 442,522. Patented Deo. 9, 1890.

'UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED B. I'IELLER, OF READING, PENSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,522, dated December9, 1890.

Application tiled September 8, 1890. Serial No. 364,342. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom il? may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED l5. IIELLER, a citizen of the United States,and resident of Reading, in the county of Berks and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gamesor Toys; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of thisspecication.

My invention relates to improvements in gaines or toys.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved toy which shall besimple in construction and easily to be understood, and which willafford great amusement and recreation.

The invention consists, essentially, in a rectangular box with a glasstop, and having a bottom made of tin or other suitable material with anumber of horizontal and transverse projecting ribs or ridges, twoseries of balls or small spheres, and a transverse stopwire, as will behereinafter be fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of a toyconstructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalsection of the same. Fig. 3 is a crosssection on the line o: fr, Fig. l.

In the said drawings the reference-numeral I designates a rectangularbox having aglass top 2, raised sides and ends 2, and a bottom 3, of tinor other suit-able material. Upon the bottom of the box are formed twoparallel horizontal ribs or ridges et, with side spaces 4 and a centralspace 4b. These ribs or ridges extend from near one end of the box tothe other, where the last rib of each series has its end 5 projectingoutwardly to the sides of the box. There are passages 6 between the endsof each adjoining rib. At the opposite end of the box are formed twotransverse ribs 7 which do not extend clear across the box, but have aspace S between their ends and the sides of the box. There is also aspace between the outermost rib and the end of the box. Over theinnermost of these transverse ribs is a stop consisting of a wire 9, aslight distance above the bottom 3. The balls or spheres are preferablyeight in number and of two sizes-that is to say, there are three smallones and tive large ones. The small ones are capable of passing underthe wire 8, but the large ones should be of such size that they would bestopped thereby.

I prefer to make the bottom 3 of tin, as the ribs could be readilystamped' up therefrom, although it is obvious that any other materialmay be used which may be found adapted for the purpose.

In playing the game the object is to get all the large balls into thespace marked A and the small balls into the space marked B. It will benoted that the large balls cannot get into space B, being prevented bythe stopwire 9, and that the ribs should be high enough to prevent theballs from jumping over.

While the game is very simple, yet it will require great dexterity ofmanipulation to separate the spheres and bring each into its properplace, thus affording considerable pleasure and wholesome amusement.

of sheet lnetal and striking or stamping up the ribs therefrom, I maymake the same of wood and form the ribs of Wire,With the ends bent downand attached thereto, as seen in Figs. I and 3.

' Having thus described my invention, what I claim isl. A game or toyconsisting of a rectangular box having a glass @over and a bottomprovided with two longitudinal ribs having passages at suitableintervals and with their ends near one end of the box projectingoutwardly to the sides thereof, transverse ribs near the other end ofthe box, a transverse stop-wire, and a series of balls or spheres ofdifferent sizes, substantially as described.

2. A game-board consisting of a rectangular box the bottom of which isprovided with two longitudinal ribs having passages at suitableintervals, said ribs near one end of the box projecting outwardly to thesides thereof, transverse ribs near the other end of the box, and atransverse ystop-wire, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim. the foregoing as my own I have hereuntoaffixed my signature in presence of two witnesses;

ALFRED B. IIELLER,

. NVitnesses:

G. W. J oHNs,

B. F. SCHONEBERGER.

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